Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unbore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-bore
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To relieve from boredom.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Let you tell her from me and from us, that there is a chapter in Deirdre that unbores God when He gets bored, & remembers who He ought to read."
"Rose felt right down at her very roots that if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him. Once a bore always a bore — certainly, she thought, to the person originally bored."

Etymology

From un- + bore.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unbores (present, singular) unboring (participle, present) unbored (participle, past) unbored (past)

Frequently Paired Words

unbored

Questions

What does unbore mean?: To relieve from boredom.
Where does unbore come from?: From un- + bore.

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